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  • The Nutritional Value of Acorns

    What can acorns bring to the table?

    Acorns - the fruits of the oak tree - have a remarkable nutritional profile that have great potential health benefits

  • Piss or get off the pot!

    New perspectives for the greenhouse: thinking about an Anthroponic system

    It's a rich solution, we produce it, sometimes it's inside us and sometimes it's not - and it connects us all, from the tiniest insect to the mastodontic blue whale. Is it blood? No, it's urine! Let'...

  • The green gold

    Celebrating our Wasabi's 2nd birthday

    After some cold and rainy months in aquaponics, we were overjoyed to see the first aquaponics plant in bloom. This early bloomer has got to be a bit of a diva, as most plants are not showing any...

  • Determining the optimal nitrogen level for the…

    Nitrogen is a key component in chlorophyll, so it plays a crucial role inside the plant: but what happens when it's too much?

    Various researches have shown the correlation between pests infestation and nitrogen leaf content - which depends on the amount of fertilizer you add. What is, then, the fertilizer amount we can...

  • Bad smell as a war weapon

    How stink has been used to spread psychological warfare in (recent) history

    Since the 19th century the main focus of our society has been on deodorisation: thighs, city, people must not smell bad, and we try to banish bad smells from our daily life.  Our sensibility...
  • Pigeon Tower Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks

    Chim

    aug '21 – Duiventoren 11

    Chim is de eerste toren waarin houten duivenkastjes geplaatst zijn. Omdat de mycelium blokken krimpen nadat ze zijn neergelegd, zijn de kastjes in een doorlopende ring om de toren geïnstalleerd. De...

  • Was Hildegard von Bingen Autistic?

    A summary of 'Ruminations on Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) and autism' by Patricia Ranft

    Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th century German nun, and one of the most influential women of her time. She wrote several scientific treatises, composed music, and invented her own language, all of...

  • Mediamatic Hoogtepunten

    Op deze pagina het in 2020 gepresenteerde overzicht van onze favoriete projecten van de voorgaande jaren.  Klik hier voor alle jaaroverzichten en de actuele evenementen kalender .
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Andy Cartier

    Chimera Furniture

    Mycelium Experiments

    What if mycelium was combined to existing furniture to give them a new life? 

  • Geschiedenis

    In 1983 was het mediatechnologie: videokunst, installaties en performance waren in het begin de kern van onze presentaties, producties en van ons tijdschrift   Mediamatic Magazine (1985-1999) , dat

  • Shrinking Sustainability

    Experimenting with making bioplastic

    Designer of the Herbal Thai Sauna, Waew, is currently in the process of experimenting, she was able to make numerous different kinds of bioplastic, in an attempt to see if they would be able to...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Clara Casal, Magdalena Thur, Elnaz Assar, Nadja Nolte

    Making acorns edible

    In a hands-on process the Clean Lab Team learns about the processing of acorns.

    The Harvest In and around Amsterdam the oak can be found in parks, forests and along the streets. Once you are attentive, you will see them everywhere around. The Balanophagy Team as well didn’t have...
  • Festival: Mediamatic Biotoop

    Japanese Knotweed Festival

    Under European regulations, invasive exotic species are allowed to be radically eradicated. The City of Amsterdam, for example, is allocating 8 million euros to aggressively destroy Japanese knotweed.
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    Shaffy's Tuin and Mediamatic

    Surrounding our Clean Lab with its entrance next to our Aquaponics Greenhouse, Shaffy's Tuin, is located. To prevent other cafés to fill up the waterside in between Hanneke's Boom, the Klimmuur and...

  • The real story behind natural perfumery

    Natural vs synthetic. Is it really eco?

    "Natural is always better" a sentence we often hear, but is it really? Well, in perfumery, it is not as simple, and there is a twist to what is commonly known and followed. Chemistry came to add...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jessica Cohen

    An Occult Dunghill in the Dijkspark

    What is that overgrown mound of flora and fauna in front of the Sluisdeurenloods? Visitors of Mediamatic will have noticed a peculiar sight in front of the barn. Is it a garden, a sculpture or an...
  • Proposal by: Lena Kuzmich

    Expanding Kin

    Project Proposal: video installation on multi-species world-building

    "Expanding Kin" is a video installation on multi-species world-building and consists of a short film and a physical installation organized as seating islands. The work examines the potential of...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Jessica Cohen

    Back to Nature

    behind the artistic practice of Ruchama Noorda

    Whilst European societies charged towards modernity at the turn of the 20th century, a new social reform movement went back to nature. How does the work of Ruchama Noorda relate to this movement?
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Arne Hendriks, Ben Hopley

    Folk

    mei '21 – Duiventoren 10

    Om de toren een stabiele fundatie te geven persen we de blokken met het gewicht van ons hele lichaam. Twee tot vijf personen gaan hand in hand op de rand van de mycelium muur staan, en bewegen of...

  • Chewable Plants

    Is it possible to give an ordinary piece of rubber a new afterlife?

    A human can produce an average of 0.5 to 1.5 liters of saliva each day or 0.3 to 0.4 ml per minute. This production of saliva can be increased or stimulated by eating, drinking or chewing some...
  • project: Natlab Annelies Wina Doom 16 okt 2021

    More like this: Schubben / Scales

    Annelies Wina Doom @ Dutch Design Week

    For the Inhuman Carnaval Costume Lab at  Dutch Design Week DDW Eindhoven, Mediamatic asked A W Doom to help our participants gain some inspiration. She made a series of recorded explorations of the...

  • Salt tolerant plants in aquaponics

    Exploring new plants as an adaptation strategy

    As a part of our project ' Grain of Salt ' we are researching plant species that are more tolerant towards salty conditions. These plants have special mechanisms to withstand higher concentrations of...

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  • Mediamatic Biotoop Alessandra Avanzi

    Cooking with essential oils.

    What does ylang ylang, orange blossom or rose essential oils taste like?

    Do you know that about 70% of our taste comes from our nose? Our taste is basically nothing  without our nose.  In fact, have you ever noticed that when you catch a cold the food tastes different?

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